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It's Career Week at school, and the gang is filling out forms to figure out what careers they might be up for upon graduation.  Buffy is whining (yet again) about how pointless it is....considering that she's already the Slayer, and that's kind sealed in fate.  At  the warehouse, Spike and a nerdy-type vampire (named Dalton) are trying to translate the book that Spike had stolen from Giles.  Drusilla tries to get Spike's attention, but he snaps at her.  She appears to have a weak spell, and he apologizes profusely.  He explains that he's trying to find a cure for herin her weakened condition she won't last much longer. He turns on Dalton and threatens his life if he doesn't hurry up and translate the book.  Drusilla is looking at Tarot cards, and tells Spike that he can't translate it until they have the key, and says she knows where to get it.  In the cemetery, Buffy is on patrol.  She comes across Dalton in a mausoleum, breaking into one of the coffins therein.  She waits for him to come outside, and confronts him.  Before she can grab him, another vamp sneaks up behind her.  While she's slaying that one, Dalton escapes.  Back at Buffy's house, Angel is startled when Buffy enters her bedroom through the window, even though her mom is out of town (habit, she says).  She asks Angel what's up, because he's got a "something" face (her response when he tells her it's nothing).  He says he just wanted to make sure she was okay, because he'd had a bad feeling  (how sweet!).  Buffy kind of snaps at him, 'cause he's always coming with bad news, but then immediately apologizes.  She tells him she's just cranky because of the career week thing.  About how her future's pretty much carved in stone, and how she can never have a normal life.  Angel tries to make her feel better (i.e. more normal) by finding out that she used to like to ice skate, and makes an ice-skating date with her the following night.  At school the next day, the gang finds out what their "careers" could be.  Xander's turns out to be a prison guard.  Buffy qualifies for a police officer.  Willow, for some reason, doesn't show up on the list.  In the library, Buffy tells Giles about the vampires stealing from the mausoleum the night before, and he seems to be bothered by it.  At the warehouse, Dalton has brought Spike and Drusilla a cross-shaped object he's stolen from the mausoleum.  Drusilla says it's the key they need, and Spike realizes he's got to get rid of Buffy, or else she might mess up his plans.  He decides to call in "the big guns"...the Order of Turaka.  Back at school, a man in a suit comes up and asks Willow to come with him.  He leads her to a curtained off section of the Career Fair...and tells her she's been selected to meet with the head of a powerful software firm.  He also tells her that the test was irrelevantthey'd been tracking her for a long timeher and one other student, who turns out to be Oz.  Oz is intently studying a platter of canapés, but starts when he sees Willow...who he's been noticing for weeks, without ever knowing her name.  Not missing a beat, he offers her a canape. Cut to Buffy and Giles entering the cemetery.  Giles has insisted they find out what the vampire stole the night before.  While walking to the mausoleum, Buffy tells him that it's okay for him to be a Watcher and a Librarian...nobody complains if he stays in and reads books all day, but what kind of job could she have that went with being a slayer? Giles recommends law enforcement, and Buffy is miffed.  They arrive at the mausoleum, and Giles figures out that this is the tomb of duLac.  He also makes the connection that the book stolen by the library was written by duLac.  He knows that the book is written in code, and figures that the item stolen was the decoder.  Then we see three scenes of people arriving in Sunnydale.  The first is a big, scary looking guy with long black hair, scars on his face, and a wicked looking eye.  He's deboarding a bus at the station.  The second is a man in an overcoat, carrying a briefcase.  He knocks on the door next to Buffy's house and introduces himself as a make-up salesman.  They go inside, and then we hear a scream from within.  The last is a young woman hiding in the cargo hold of a plane that's just landed.  She knocks out the tech who noticed her  in the hold, and climbs from the plane.  She's very beautiful and exotic looking, and obviously dangerous.  Back at the library, Giles shows the gang the information he has on the "duLac Cross", which is basically the decoder for the book the vamps stole.  He wants them all to be researching in the library that night, but Buffy skips out for her ice-skating date with Angel.  At the rink, Buffy is skating along, waiting for Angel, when the first of the Order of Turaka makes his appearance.  The man from the bus enters the rink and attacks Buffy.  She tries to fight him off, but he's exceptionally strong.  Suddenly, Angel shows up with his vamp face on, shouts "Buffy!" and attacks the man.  While he's got Angel in a chokehold, Buffy grabs hold of some netting and allows momentum to carry her feet up to the man's neck, where she slices it with the blade of her skate.  At the warehouse, Drusilla is turning over one of the three Tarot cards before her.  The card is of a one-eyed monster, and she turns it face down.  The other two cards depict a worm, and a jaguar, in an exotic jungle.  Back at the rink, Angel notices the ring worn by the dead man, and tells Buffy he's got to get her somewhere safe.  Buffy tries to touch Angel, because he's bleeding above his eye from where the man hit him, but he pulls away from her.  She asks him what's wrong, and he says that she shouldn't have to touch him when he's "like this" (referring to his vamp face).  Buffy touches him again and tells him that she didn't even noticethen she kisses him.  On the far side of the rink, the exotic woman from the plane watches them kissing.  At the library, Giles examines the ring.  Buffy tells him how Angel freaked out when he saw it, and Giles explains that it's because the ring is a symbol of the Order of Turakawho, basically, are bounty hunters.  A team of assassins.  Giles also decides that Buffy must go away until they figure out what to do about it.  He tells her that they have no other point to existence other than to take out their bounty.  Where there is one, more will follow.  It doesn't matter how many she kills, they will keep after her until they get her.  Buffy is sufficiently wigged.  At school the next day she walks down the hallway eyeing everyone with suspicion.  She doesn't know who might be the next assassin after her.  She over reacts when Oz happens to walk up behind her, and she throws him up against a locker.  Later, while walking home, Buffy decides she doesn't want to spend the night alone in her house.  She goes instead to Angel's place, but he's not there.  While waiting for him, she falls asleep on his bed.  Cut to Angel, who is standing in the doorway of a bar.  The proprietor, a weasley guy named Willy, appears to be really nervous around him.  Angel tells Willy he's come for information, and Willy tries to tell him that he's "not into that whole scene" anymore.  It turns out that Willy runs this bar for vampires and demons, but he's also the snoop of all snoops.  Angel has come to him to find out who sicked the Order of Turaka on the Slayer.  Willy is reluctant to part with the information, but Angel ultimately learns that Spike sent for them.  While threatening Willy, Angel is knocked to the floor by a kick from the exotic looking woman with the tribal jewelry.  She stands above him about to stake him, but he fights her.  She knocks him down, and drags him in to a cage in the storeroom of the barlocking him in.  He asks who she is, but she doesn't answer.  She tells him the sun will be coming in a few hours (the cage is in direct view of the windows), and she takes off to find his "girlfriend".  He tells her that if she hurts Buffy he'll kill her, but she goes anyway, leaving him there. Back at the library, Giles has found the information he needs about the book stolen.  He figures out that the book was a key to how to cure a sick or dying vampire.  They realize that Spike is looking to make Drusilla better.  He calls Xander to go check on Buffy at her house, and Xander gets Cordelia to drive him there.  At the house, Xander goes to check upstairs, leaving Cordelia alone downstairs.   Someone knocks on the door, and upon opening it she finds the man who's been staying next door.  He offers some free make-up samples, and she lets him in.  Back at Willy's, Angel is still trying to get out of his cage, but the sunlight is getting closer to him.  Cut to Angel's placeBuffy wakes up just in time to avoid a hatchet to the head.  She narrowly escapes being be-headed.  Buffy fights with the exotic girl, but finds that they are equally matched.  The girl asks Buffy who she is, but Buffy turns the question back on her.  The girl says "I am Kendra, the Vampire Slayer". To Be Continued.... Flaws:  When Buffy comes across Dalton stealing the duLac Cross from the tomb, she goes outside to wait for him.  The camera angle focuses behind her on the door, which Dalton soon exits from.  She makes a snide comment, and then is attacked from behind.  She turns around to deal with the vamp, and (in the same camera angle) Dalton is no longer in front of the door.  Now, I'm as much for the vamp having just taken off as much as the next person, but not the way it's edited.  I mean she's talking to him, and boom, she turns around.  He's there, he's not there.  Anyway.  When Buffy and Kendra go to Willy's the first time looking for Angel, Kendra pretty much just wants to beat him up.  But Buffy threateningly says "we're not gonna get anything out of him if he doesn't stay.... unconscious" ...um, hello.  If he doesn't stay UN-conscious? Who wrote that into the script? Or is it just another flub of SMG's, like in "Angel" when she tells Angel to take off his shirt so she can go get some "bandagages"? (seriously, watch the ep, and that's what she says) Thoughts on the Episode:   Unfortunately, I can't talk about too much for this one, because it's the first part of a two-parter.  Most of what I will discuss under these eps will be under part 2.  This episode does, however, lay the groundwork for the "cure of Drusilla", and we're introduced to Dalton, the Bookworm Vampire, who shows up in a later episode.  We also meet Oz again, even though he only has one line in this episode.  Oh well, Oz doesn't need to have lines, he's too cool. Best Line: When Buffy is trying to tell Angel what her problem is in the beginning of the episode she says "We're having this thing at school..."   Angel says "Career week?" Buffy asks how he knew and he replies with "I lurk".

"What's my Line? pt.1"

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